Sunday, March 22, 2009

This kind of simple word play where you combine the names of two things and create a third thing is very common, I know. Maybe there's even a name for this process, if anyone knows of one, please leave it in the comments section. Or make one up.

What made this one appealing to me was the deadpan humor of a whale with a two-way wrist TV that he can't possibly see from his vantage point. Plus the tiny hat. I also like to render underwater scenes, so all that added together made for a green light.

As I look at this thing this morning, I can't find the 5 symbols that the number by the signature says there are supposed to be. I only found four. So here's another version with one added. If someone finds all five in the original, let me know.

Wheel of Fortune calls the category "Before & After". The answers are things like "Abraham Lincoln Continental". Steve Martin and Martin Mull did a stand up tour together years ago billed as "The Steve Martin Mull Show" I've seen literary journals make up imaginary novels by combining existing books like "Gone With the Wind In the Willows".

Not everybody gets a kick out of this stuff. You need some background knowledge to understand the references.

i didn't see a fifth symbol unless the fish count like someone said already, but comparing the two, i really like the revised one because of the way you fit in the bunny. took out the harsh lines. and i love the tiny hat/big whale image.

"This kind of simple word play where you combine the names of two things and create a third thing is very common, I know. Maybe there's even a name for this process, if anyone knows of one, please leave it in the comments section. Or make one up."

I think most people refer to that as "crapping it out with zero effort."